Places mariannecox20 Wants to Go

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.